Timeline for Why would each leg suddenly read 240 volts power drop in part of my house every 5-10 minutes?
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| Feb 15, 2023 at 21:16 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | I hate to look a gift meter pan in the mouth @Chris but I really wish they had given you a meter-main. (meter and main breaker built-in). That would make DIY replacement of the panel easier without needing to call the power company again. I would give Habitat for Humanity a call and first see if they can find you a disconnect to put right after the meter, and second if they can help in any other ways. | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 14:55 | comment | added | FreeMan | @ChrisGGiles it sounds like you got a very understanding crew and that they're very willing to work with you. Take Harper's advice here. Take your time, LEARN before doing, ask questions here as you go (providing lots of pics is often very helpful) and it sounds like you'll be OK. Go all cowboy, making changes without thinking and you may end up burning the place down! Your follow up comments still lead me to believe that Harp's assessment is correct. | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 8:19 | comment | added | Chris G Giles | That will be up to code and a lot safer and cleaner. They were very understanding and I had built a house for one of the guys sister so it's all working out other than I still have the same problem. I did notice though that at the meter they were getting 120volts on each leg and at my panel I'm reading 129 on 1 and 11 on the other at times 135 and 104 then under load either leg is reading 241 -244. They seem to think it's a ground? I have a space heater and unless I have it on in certain plugs I'm not getting power to anything. I also have to have a radiator heater on in my br where it strtd? | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 8:08 | comment | added | Chris G Giles | They are attached to the wall exposed down to a meter screwed to the wall. They gave me a new meter box and enough wire that's like the newr lines and I've got a old pipe that was a weatherhead on a old pole barn that fell that they said would be fine. So I've got to grt me a boot and drill me a 2 1/4" hole with a hole saw run the pipe through it and let it stick 3' above the roof mount the new meter box to the wall screw the poll to it run the new wire through it attach it to the new box and run new wire to my panel then call them back they're gonna run new wire from transformer n hook it up. | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 7:58 | comment | added | Chris G Giles | Well PC came out this afternoon and pulled the meter then cleaned all the replaced all the connects after brushing the ends of all the wires. They say the problem is most likely going to be my neutral bar behind the meter before they even began changing connectors. They got it all back together popped the meter back in and nothing same ole shit. Its so old that I don't even have a pole coming through the roof with a weatherhead down 6o a meter box. The lines are ran to a insulator lag bolted to the facia board and up under the eave and the very old cloth wrapped small aluminum wires. | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 2:47 | comment | added | Nelson | The point of making the DIY work illegal is because it sucked and killed people. They wouldn't have bothered to make it illegal (it takes work) if people did it properly. You don't see bylaws on how to blink your eyes properly or breathe, even though both of these things are pretty important, because people can't do them wrong. | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 22:44 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 14, 2023 at 22:37 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |